@Captainkangaroo:
Thanks! Appreciate ur assistance!
@everyone:
Late last nite, roughly around 11pm-midnite, most of the problems I'd reported earlier when making the post seemed to slowly go away.
I'd already done several reboots of the MAG254, all comm. equipment, etc., to rule those things out numerous times
before making my initial post, but it didn't make any difference.
Later, close to 11pm and on thru around midnite last nite, which was easily 4 hours after my last reboot of all equipment, the nfps service for US Live channels started improving on its own.
I spot checked the same channels today (20 JUN 2016) at 7am, 10am and 4:15pm respectively, and most are still fairly stable from my observation of them as they began to improve late last nite. So....hopefully we're on the mend again. Sure hope it lasts for a long, looonnngggg time this time!